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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 27, 2013 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Contemporary Art, Part I | 966 | $****** - ****** | Portraits of the Classics |
paintings
80 x 100 cm (31.5 x 39.37 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dated Immendorff 1975; Galerie Ascan Crone, Berlin (stamped on stretcher)
Galerie Ascan Crone, Berlin (stamped on stretcher) In contrast to his coffeehouse scenes, executed at the end of the 1970s, the four portraits are a peculiar work. Immendorff based his work on a Soviet-era classroom wall chart depicting Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin which he adopted in its entirety, yet at the same time completely reworked. The subjects of the portrait are virtually copied, in Immendorff’s characteristic brushstroke, and enriched by the addition of the Russian writer and reformer Leo Tolstoy in their midst. The stark monochrome background of the original is refashioned into a dominant stage set. Immendorff divides the sky into a light blue, radiant daytime on the left, and a dark, black night on the right, appropriately inserting a bright yellow and white hammer, dog and sickle on each side. A city skyline is shown below the five portraits, its illumination strongly reduced from left to right. In his composition Immendorff offers a homage to kindred spirits or, if we want to offer a formula for the intricate visualisation in the paintings, a kind of wish fulfilment. (Werner Spies, in: Exhibition catalogue Jörg Immendorff, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Cologne 2007, p.16f)
